'I think at the bottom of it is a whole generation of kids in pain trying to figure out how to rationalize that pain and deal with it,' Aaron Stark said. In the '90s, Stark planned to shoot up a Denver school. The words of a friend changed his mind.
Since then, more than 311,000 kids have been exposed to gun violence in schools during school hours, according to an analysis from the Washington Post.
He says after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School shooting in Parkland, Florida claimed the lives of 17 people, he felt compelled to let the world know something he had never shared with anyone previously. Stark says after years of bullying in school and abuse at home, he had enough and had planned to shoot up Denver’s North High School when he was 17. He had planned to get a gun from a classmate and bring it to school and kill as many people as he could before he killed himself.
“I looked at this kid [who committed the Uvalde school shooting] and he committed one of the worst possible actions you could ever even contemplate. He shot a whole school of school children and all I saw when I looked at that story was I saw me 30 years ago. I saw the pain that I was going through. I saw the depression I was in. I saw the self-harm."
He has also started the Facebook page YouAreNotAlone, which has more than 2,600 members as it provides emotional support and community for people who face similar challenges as him.
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